2006-10-19 04:41:26 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
It cant be called chicken apparently as the chickens they breed cannot fly or even hold their heads up (as the neck bone is no longer there through breeding)!
2006-10-19 04:45:31 · update #1
In other words the chicken is not a chicken but rather just a fleshy feathery thing!
2006-10-19 04:46:30 · update #2
Nope, That is an urban legend
Raising chickens that have been genetically modified so that they are born without beaks, feathers, or feet, or with additional legs is still beyond the reach of modern science for the time being (although selective breeding has been used to enhance some features, such as breast size). Also, the claims about Kentucky Fried Chicken's name change are easily belied:
Links on KFC's web site (such as kentuckyfriedchicken.com clearly describe its product as "chicken" numerous times, something it could hardly get away with if the government were prohibiting the company from using that word.) KFC sells the equivalent of 736 million chickens annually. They'd have to own some monstrously huge "chicken farms" in order to supply themselves with well over half a billion chickens every year.
As well, KFC is but one component of Tricon, a corporation that also includes the Taco Bell and Pizza Hut chains of restaurants. All of these outlets serve chicken and obtain their supplies through the same sources, which would require Tricon to operate an even more massively huge series of "mutant chicken" farms to keep its restaurants fully supplied.
Kentucky Fried Chicken decided to change its name to KFC in 1991 for several reasons, none of which had anything to do with governmental regulations about mutant animals:
* A move to de-emphasize "chicken" because KFC planned to offer a varied menu that included other types of food.
*A desire to eliminate the word "fried," which has negative connotations to the increasingly health-conscious consumer market.
*A recent trend towards the abbreviation of long commercial titles, as demonstrated by other companies' employing shortened forms of their names, such as The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and Howard Johnson's (HoJo).
2006-10-19 22:43:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Call Kentucky Fried Chicken
2016-12-11 20:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Is it true Kentucky Fried Chicken cannot be called 'chicken' any more and thats why its know as KFC now?
2015-08-07 08:28:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may treat their chickens terribly, but that's not why.
The reason it's just KFC now is because people are too lazy to say a name three words long.
And I'm sure they still have neck bones, even if they can't fly.
2006-10-21 05:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true.
KFC is just easier to say "Kentucky Fried Chicken" is too much of a mouthfull. Marketing tactic.
Plus maybe it's because it's not fried in Kentucky only.They want to think Globaly.
2006-10-19 05:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Artist1320 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
let me answer this word-to-word.
about removing KENTUCKY. well, they are making it all over the world now, so if a person in china reads kentucky fried chicken, maybe he'll think that the chicken is not very fresh...it may have been imported all the way from kentucky. so, he'll not buy it. that's why they wanna avoid kentucky.
about FRIED. yeah see, how would u react if you read FRIED on the package of the food? you probably would not eat it.
that's why they wanna avoid FRIED
. and, of course, the chicken they breed is not actually fit enough to be a chicken anymore, just like u said. so that's why they wanna avoud the CHICKEN. so, there you go.
2006-10-19 08:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by thehelper 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Kfc Name Change
2016-11-04 22:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called KFC because of some rebranding, marketing, modernisation thing I imagine.
The food served is definitely chicken. The story about the meat they serve being from specially bred mutant chickens is a well known urban myth and there is no truth in it at all.
2006-10-19 04:56:26 · answer #8 · answered by Nickelcat 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That's such a grim thought!
I have a friend who calls it Unlucky Fried Pigeon 'cos the "chicken" may or may not actually be chicken!!!
2006-10-19 04:52:58 · answer #9 · answered by No_More_Drama 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not true. they changed the name to K.F.C. because people are to lazy to say Kentucky Fried Chicken. it takes more time and people just dont have time. Thats why there are fastfood places to begin with.
2006-10-20 05:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋